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Meanings of pug-dog in English

Portuguese
pug
Catalan
buldog petit
Spanish
pug
Wikidata

Small compact smooth-coated breed of Asiatic origin having a tightly curled tail and broad flat wrinkled muzzle.

pug
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Examples for "pug"
Examples for "pug"
1
A year later we got our first pug from friends of ours.
My best friends have hairy legs
2
They had left her pug at home with Hélène, who adored her.
A good woman
3
Soon I know we will be covered in pug snot and kisses.
My best friends have hairy legs
4
Not to mention the impression that a pug might marry a raccoon.
The Guardian
5
The pug caught sight of his pyjama legs and began to yap.
The Haunted Bookshop
Usage of pug-dog in English
1
Evelyn must make a pug-dog face, because then Inky tells her, "Relax."
Haunted: a novel of stories
2
Dermot was the first person we saw, disporting himself with a pug-dog at the door.
My Young Alcides: A Faded Photograph
3
A large, coffee-colored pug-dog was lying before the fire.
Gerfaut — Volume 1
4
He says that he was resistant to casting Jon Voight, because of his pug-dog mug.
The new yorker
5
A fat cigar smoldered between his plump fingers and he looked like a beatific pug-dog.
Second Foundation
6
A woman must love something-evenif she hasn't anything better to love than a pug-dog or herself.
The Love Affairs of an Old Maid
7
The pug-dog suddenly opened his eyes.
My Lady's Money
8
You wouldn't dare, you little pug-dog.
Foundation
9
Candor even compels the statement that in her pudgy swarthy face there was a droll suggestion of the pug-dog.
The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of Limitations
10
But there was a little bluff master, a clergyman, with shaggy rippled red-brown hair and a face like a pug-dog.
Where No Fear Was: A Book About Fear
11
We shall be left alone, and the time will hang as heavily with us as with a pug-dog in a bandbox.
Napoleon and Blücher: An Historical Novel
12
She is healthy, good-humoured, and of course vulgar, since she is no connoisseur in china, and never spoke to a pug-dog in her life.
Marriage
13
Turning westward his old asthmatic pug-dog countenance, he gazed at you with big, lustreless eyes, in a way that said, "You were saying?"
Two Poets
14
Pug-dog ugly; but he's awful nice, and for a boy has real much sense.
Mary Cary: "Frequently Martha"
15
The room was filled with knick-knacks, and here were the pug-dogs, no less than three of them!
Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances
16
Her canaries alone number four hundred, and, in addition, there is an army of pug-dogs, hangers-on, and servants.
Dead Souls
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Translations for pug-dog
Portuguese
pugpug-cão
Spanish
pug
Pug-dog through the time